Improved clothes-deyee



B. BRITTEN GLOTHBS DRIBR Patented Maar. 5, 1867.

nit'2ilr 13125 %atmt @ffitm BENJAMIN BRITTEN, OF GALENA, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent N0. 62,600, dated illarch 5, 1 867.

- TO ALL WHOM IT MAY-OONCERN BH it known that I, BENJAMIN BRITTEN, of Galena, in the county of Jo Daviess, and State of Il1 inois ha.ve invented a new und imp'roved OIotHe-Frame or Rack, and th'at thefollowing description, funken in conneetion With che accompanying dra.wing., hereinalfterxeferred to, forma a. full und exac'ct specification of the Same, wherein I hulvc sei; forth th{a natura und principles of my saidimprovements, by whih my invention may be distinguished fxom all others of a. similar dass, together with such arts as I claim und desird to have sebured t me by Letters Patent.

The prese'nt inv ntfon consists ir r so constructing a. clothes-rack or framc that it ca,n be folded up into a compact shape, suitable for being'encl osed or enca sed vithin a. hollow tube or oylinder that, When the -said rack i: drawn out of the same, serves as a. stilndard und snpport thereto By thus eonstbructing a clotlies-frame or nvek I am enabled to combine it with g table, or other sta.iid having its t p snsceptible cf detatzhmeht from1ts zentro column or post, 'by simply making such Post h ollow-and adapting it to receive t he said rack or frame whn suitably folded therefor, as will be hereinafter fully expl dined, re f6re nce being had to the accompamying platze of drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a (zentral vertica.l secbiouthrough the 'centre co1umn or post and the top of the ta.bl shd=wing ihe clothes-rack fol ded therein. v

Figure 2, ai)1an view of the under side of the table-top detuched from the oentre column or post.

Figiure 3, a centra-l vertical section through the table (zentre post, showing the clothes-rack or frnme drmrh out and unfolded or arramged ior use; and

Figures 4 an'd 5, detail views, to be hereinafter referred to. 1

A, in the drawings, represents the centre colunm or post of a tabl e, which is made hollow, -with if:s upper und, B, open', but its lower cnd closed by a. pla.i;e c. This Post is secured a.t its lower end to' a suita.bly-shaped pedestal or foobba.se, D. a, a. fia.fige arouhd the upper ehd cf centre pos't, wliih fiange isnotched or eut oufi a1; two points ifiametrically opposife t each other, so as to admit pf lugs, b, seeured to the nder side of the table-top E, .being pnssed through the same, amd thence under the said flangeby then turning jor swinging the top around upon the 'post. By the abov6 means the table-tp can be a.iqtache d; to and detache'd-fpom the centre post at plensure und aceording as may be d sired. F is a. ring or 0011m Cf suitable external' diame@cr to fit an d play within the hollow centre ost. This' colla.r F has a lip c, around its 1ower edgewhich, when t11e co1lzn is drmrp.up through the centre post, comesto a bearing orstop agai11st the edge d project ing over the mouth pf the centre ost. Inslots e of this ring F arseries of arms, G, is bang updn pivot,f. Thesg arms project ot extend outward from the ring F in radial lines, a,s shown in fig. 4, ab equa1 distances, o1 nearly so, apart, am]. being made of equal an of such length that, when closed uponeuch other and run into the hollow ost, as shown in fig. 1, they will nqt project above the top of the same, a.nd t hus inter-fere with the'attachment of the table-top theretoL r From the above description it isp1s.inly obvious that by drawing the collar F up again3t -the upper end of centre ost, which brings the series of 'armsG abov e und entire]y out of the Post, by then swinging such arms down, so as to rast or 1ie' upoh the top of the po st, a c'lothes-xack 0r frame will thus be prqduced, thearxns themselves, tog'ethe1 with the wei ght of the clqthes suspended fipon them, holding the ring F firmlyto its position. In addit ib n to the series of arms G, another seiies, S, is shown above them, this latter series being Simi larly connected to a collar, T; a. rranged to plaj within a. tub'e, U, that is of suitable size to fi: within tlie arms G, when folded up, as shown in fig. 1. The adjustmerit cf "the la.tter arms S for use as a. clothes-rack o r frame is similar to that des cribod for the arms G, and Wh9n not in use are all-ericlosed within th e. talblepost, a.s shown in fig. 1.

- H:Wing thus described my invention, I cla.im aus new, und desire to secure oy netter's Patent- The combinationbf the tubes A U Witli the' flanged rings F T, an'd a-rms G S, a s herein set forth for the purpose specified.

' BENJAMIN BRITTEN. Witnesses:

Josm n. H. BAB.RY, 'J.nonms MGIN'IYRE. 

